The 8th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Association of Neurological Surgery: “Aspire, Inspire, Innovate” Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, April 15-17, 2014ONCOLOGY: From idea to clinical integration: a neurosurgical odysseyStereotactic robot-guided biopsies of brain lesions: experience with 4 casesSurgery for deeply located intracranial lesions under intraoperative MRI guidanceTMS: a non-invasive cortical mapping systemPilomyxoid astrocytomas: diagnosis, prognosis, and managementThe shift in the surgical management in craniopharyngiomaSPINE: Is there a light of hope: reconstruction of the severely injured spinal cord by using stem cells?Internal metal fiducials with intraoperative CT-navigation reduces radiation during cervical spine instrumentation with improved accuracyPediatric neck deformity: review of causes and managementSingle-stage combined posterior-anterior decompression and instrumented fusion for management of cervical pathologiesLeiomyoma of the neck and cervical spinePercutaneous fixation of thoracolumbar fractures: KFMC experienceSpinal cord tumor surgeries, transient paraplegia, and prevention with intra-operative neurophysiologyMorphometry of vertebra in the Saudi populationVASCULAR: Epidemiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage at a University Hospital in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaConcurrent solitaire FR use and carotid stenting in acute tandem carotid occlusion settingPediatric intracranial aneurysms: characteristics, presentation, management, and outcomeEarly abnormal transient hyperemic response test can help predict delayed ischemic neurogenic deficit in subarachnoid hemorrhageManagement of vein of galen malformation: The KFMC experiencePEDIATRICS: Minimal invasive craniosynostosis correction without the use of the helmet: Updates to the technique and avoiding complicationsIs shunt series x-ray necessary before revision of obstructed ventriculoperitoneal shunt?Predictors of postoperative infection after neurosurgical repair of open myelomeningoceleMultiloculated hydrocephalus in children: does neuroendoscopy make a difference?Duration of preoperative external ventricular drain in pediatric posterior fossa tumors – does it matter?The introduction of selective dorsal rhizotomy in Saudi ArabiaSelective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) in patients with spastic diplegia; state of the art neurosurgery with a neurophysiology perspectivePediatric skull base chordoma: report of 4 cases and review of the current literatureEndoscopic management of third ventricular arachnoid cyst mimicking aqueductal stenosisGENERAL AND TRAUMA: Management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension: A 19 year experienceMeasuring the immeasurable; lights on the Health Care Quality; Neurosurgery as an examplePrognostic quality of MRI in severe traumatic brain injury patientsIs ventricular drain sampling from the collecting chamber as accurate as the 3-way stopper? A prospective studyFUNCTIONAL: Surgery of medically intractable epilepsySacral neuromodulation in neurogenic bladder of incomplete spinal cord injuryElectrode–brain interface in globus pallidus internus deep brain stimulationPreventing lower cranial nerve injuries during fourth ventricle tumor resection by utilizing intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM)VNS Therapy, is it still a palliative modality in intractable epilepsy?